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Steve Kornacki and NBC Drew Crowds as Midterms Got a Ratings Bump

NYT > Business > Media · John Koblin and Michael M. Grynbaum · last updated

More than 31 million viewers followed along with the Democrats’ big night on television, a 23 percent jump from the 2022 midterm elections.

A Democratic landslide was a television hit.

Roughly 31.2 million people watched election returns on television Tuesday night, according to Nielsen, exceeding the total from the 2022 midterms by 23 percent.

The evening’s big ratings winner was NBC, which offered affiliates a staggering 13 consecutive hours of coverage of the dozens of House and Senate races unfolding across the country. NBC led all the major cable and broadcast networks with 6.7 million viewers — a total that did not include a significant online audience for a livestream of its indefatigable data nerd, Steve Kornacki.

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